Collapsible lunch or shopping bag



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Patented Dec. 28, 1948 Clyde J. Wal;ner, i

My invention relates to handy bags such as lunch or shopping bags preferably made of canvas or similar material so that they may be rolled up and carried in the coat pocket when not in use.

The four sides and the flat bottom are reinforced by stiff rods of wood or metal as are also the edges of the top opening near which a small inside pocket is provided. The top opening can be closed by snap or slide fasteners.

These and other advantages and objects of the invention will be understood from the subjoined description and the attached drawings.

Like numerals relate to the same details in the several views, wherein- Figure 1 shows a view in front elevation of my bag.

Figure 2 is an end view thereof when closed.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a horizontal section of Figure 1 on a plane along line 4-4 thereof.

Figure 5 is a View in vertical section on a plane along line 55 of Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a view in vertical section on a plane along line 6-6 of Figure 5.

Figure '7 is a similar view on a plane along line 7-1 of Figure 5.

Figure 8 is another section taken on a plane along line 8-8 of Figure 5.

Figure 9 is a fragmentary section of a detail.

Figure 10 is a fragmentary view in section and an enlargement of the locking device of the bag.

Figure 11 is a perspective view in part section of the bag open.

Figure 12 is a fragmentary view in horizontal section showing the connections of the reinforcing rods at the bottom of the bag.

Figure 13 is a central view in vertical section of the bag collapsed.

Figure 14 is a horizontal view in section of the bag taken on a plane along line I l-44 of Figure 13, and

Figure 15 is a rolled up.

As best shown in Figures 1, 3, 4 and 11 the bag is made up of five rectangular pieces of canvas or other strong, foldable material and consists of two long side pieces 29, two short or end pieces 2| and a bottom piece 22 of which the two side pieces are of equal size and the two end pieces of another equal size. Along the long sides of the bottom piece 22 are provided two reinforcing strips 23 of wood or metal, permanently secured to the canvas as by rivets, cementing or stitching 23a. The said five canperspective view of the bag vas pieces may be cut out as one piece and folded around the strips 23 or else they may be cut out separately and secured in the same manner.

At the ends of the bottom, detachable reinforcing strips 24 are provided and held in position by snap fasteners 25 or the like disposed between adjacent ends of strips 23 and 24, as shown in Figure 12.

The top edges of the long sides 20 are folded over a similar wooden or metal strip 26 and secured at 21 by stitching or in any other manner to the main part of side pieces 20.

A pair of handles is formed by cutting out an elliptic portion at 28 near the middle of each strip 26 and the bag is closed by bringing the top edges with strips 26 together and locking them by snap or slide fasteners 29, see Figures 13 and 10. If then the short bottom strips 24 have been previously removed and placed loosely on the bottom, the bag folds flat as in Figures .13, 14 ready for being rolled up as in Figure 15. If the short strips 24 are left in place, the bag is ready for use, as in Figures 2, 6 and '7.

Below one handle opening a small piece of canvas 30 is secured as by stitching 3| to one side piece 20 while its opposite edge maybe detachably secured to the opposite side piece 20 by snap fasteners 32. This limits the opening of the bag to only a partially opened position.

If only partly open as seen in Figures 5 and 8 the side pieces 2| are folded inwardly as at Zia to form sharp pleats which are snapped to the side pieces 20 as at 2lb.

In Figure 11 the bag is fully open, ready for packing. In Figures 13 to 15 the bag is shown in the process of being rolled up for storage.

When in the claim the term snaps is used, the same is intended to imply other securing means than snap buttons, but to also cover such fasteners as zippers and the like.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosure herein described and shown but may be varied within the scope of the subjoined claim.

I claim:

A collapsible handy bag of strong, foldable material, comprising a rectangular bottom and four rectangular sides of said material which are conventionally joined together along their adjacent portions, a reinforcing strip of stiff material permanently secured along each long side edge of the bottom and a similar short strip detachably secured along each of the short end edges thereof; other similar reinforcing strips being secured along the top edges of the ing, a pair of handles being provided beneath the top strips by the removal of a small portion of each long side to form a pair of opposed,

centrally disposed apertures; a small aperture covering flap seeured by stitching at one edge thereof'below the handle openin 110 the inn r side of one of the long Sides, cooperatingsnap fastener elements disposed respectively On the other edge of the flap and on the inner side of theiopposite long side for securing the free edge of'the flap to the other ilnrkjgks'ifl; new:

of said rectangular short side-s beingjioldable 15 along *a vertical line to form parallel endinwardly directed portions each't mom able to one of the long sides.

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